Season 42 – 1967 F1 – Round 4 – Privateers - Albi

The fourth race in the 1967 Grand Prix series finds us in South West of France. Racing first started on the Circuit des Planques in 1933, the pits and startline being on a short straight before the road twisted down into St.Antoine. At St.Juery the cars had to contend with an extreme hairpin bend, followed by a railway level crossing. The 5.531 mile circuit was shortened in 1951 to 1.859 miles, before being closed in 1955 following the Le Mans disaster. Racing resumed at the nearby Aerodrome in 1959 which is the circuit we now know as Albi. The Chicane du Sequestre was introduced in 1988. Albi has never hosted a championship F1 race, but it held a Formula Two race in 1967 and we will be using the layout used then. Jackie Stewart won that race in his Matra. He was followed home by Jochen Rindt in a Brabham and Jim Clark, who had spun his Lotus near the Dunlop bridge.

Race list	=	iGOR
Server	=	UKGPL10
IP address	=	217.155.118.41
Password	=	see above
GPL Mod	=	67F1
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track download	=	Albi 1967
Track directory	=	albi67
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	40 laps
Replay	=	here

Please use the Track Gap Freeze Fix Patch V.09 for all on-line races.

Please READ CAREFULLY THE RULES :
A driver must cross the start line in order to register the use of a chassis, participation in qualifying is not sufficient.

The tokens system will be used with drivers being awarded tokens for starting the season and for starting each race. Each car will cost a number of tokens per race.

Drivers are reminded that Lap 1 incidents carry an extra 1 place penalty.

Drivers must complete 50% race distance to score.

MOD PRO so no shift-R

Only reported incidents will be moderated.

Please, excepting emergencies, no chat until Session Completed in qualification. No chat in the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

Please check the Season 42 details regarding rules and the 1967 F1 Privateers Championship pages in particular.

Yesterday I had 2 machines running; one with the old IP and the other with the new. Both seemed to work just fine. Weird.

In order to avoid confusion, do we all have to be on the same one or does it not really matter?

Just in case anyone is unsure how many tokens they have, hover your mouse over your points total in the championship table. The number of tokens you have (before the 10 you get for starting the next race) is displayed in a pop-up. So if 5 tokens appears in the pop-up, you will have 5 + 10 = 15 tokens available for the next race.

Unfortunately the pop-up only works once you have scored points. Until then (hopefully for most people only 1 or 2 races) drivers will need to calculate the tokens for themselves.

Please note: the "hover" mechanism doesn't work on a mobile phone.

Bad news Billy, shame mate.  Was going well for me. having some great laps with Dave & David, managed a new PB too.

but about, I think 6 or so laps to go a big BOOM and a piston decided to part from a rod and come out through the engine block.

story of my GPL life " Pissed n Broke "  Lol.  

was great fun while it lasted.  Love this track.

On about L12 as I was coming to the S/F line, Paul in front of me disappeared for a few seconds. As I was coming around T1, Pribluda went to all red except for me. The race server had dropped me again and I was bounced off. I know I'm the only privateer from the U.S., but I've got a wired connection to my router that gives me 350Mbps download and 17Mbps upload speeds without variance of any kind. This shouldn't be happening in the 21st century.

Can see some logged disconnects/resurrects.

Have imported the race results as per the original replay - but can be investigated/adjusted as appropriate at a later time.

Cheers,
Dave.